Deutsch homophones
aalen/Ahlen/allen
"aalen" is a verb; "Ahlen" is a name - grammar picks the spelling, not sound. Size rank #5 of 483 German groups.
Data vintage
Grammar picks the spelling
Same sound, different grammar: "aalen" arrives as a verb, while "Ahlen" is a name. Once the sentence role is fixed, only one spelling fits.
Spelling pairs in this cluster
- No shared spelling stem: "aalen" is 5 letters, "Ahlen" is 5; only the sound ties them.
- No shared spelling stem: "aalen" is 5 letters, "allen" is 5; only the sound ties them.
- No shared spelling stem: "Ahlen" is 5 letters, "allen" is 5; only the sound ties them.
Orthographic DNA of this cluster
Shared letters across aalen, Ahlen, allen: aeln. Private letters are the ones only one spelling owns: the eye's fastest tell once sound is out of the picture.
aalen
5 letters · 3 vowels · shape VVCVC
Inventory aeln · no private letters vs siblings
Ahlen
5 letters · 2 vowels · shape VCCVC
Inventory aehln · private h
allen
5 letters · 2 vowels · shape VCCVC
Inventory aeln · no private letters vs siblings
Pick the spelling from the meaning
- Write "aalen" when you mean: sich ausstrecken, (zum Beispiel im Bett, in der Sonne, am Strand) faulenzen
- Write "Ahlen" when you mean: Stadt in Nordrhein-Westfalen im Regierungsbezirk Münster
- Write "allen" when you mean: Dativ Plural des Indefinitpronomens all
Known mistypes of these spellings
Edit-distance variants recorded against this cluster: useful when a search or OCR feed lands on the wrong form.